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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95903	Vicissitudes progress, with its convoy through the counties of Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Middlesex, to Westminster and to London. By way of premonstration.		1648 (1648)	Wing V336; Thomason E452_5; ESTC R203899	14,716	16

Vicissitudes Progress WITH Its Convoy through the COUNTIES OF Essex Kent Surrey Sussex AND Middlesex To Westminster and to London By way of Premonstration 1 Pet. 2.17 Fear God Honor the King Deut. 17.15 Thou shalt in any wise set a King over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose Verse 16. But he shall not multiply horses to himself nor cause the people to return to Egypt Verse 17. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself that his heart turn not away Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold Verse 18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a book Verse 19. And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God LONDON Printed for Laurence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop next door to the Fountain Tavern in the Strand near the Savoy 1648. Vicissitudes Progress WITH Its Convoy through the Counties of Essex Kent Surrey Sussex and Middlesex to Westminster and to London THe mutation of things cause oblivion yet Vicissitude seems to bring new things into the world But there is no new thing under the Sun That which hath been is and that which is will be hereafter onely by reason of the mutability of mens mindes we think those things to be new which we have forgotten to be before All things descend and mount again by changes so as in revolution of time we receive that for new and good which was a little before thrust out as evil and unsufferable Such mutations cause Divisions Factions Alteration in Religion change of Government and strange Transmutations in States Cities Kingdoms and Empires Men naturally seek after Novelties and so they desire Ease and Liberty any tye of Obedience is burthensom therefore are not long content in any condition neither with a King nor without a King will be sick for a Parliament and sick of a Parliament complain of defects in Governors yet cast off all Government The desires of men are violent whirled about and hurryed after Change without consideration and their Concupiscence restless not restrained by Conscience Law nor Punishment though Conscience check within and the Magistrate curb without Conscience is smothered and Magistracy trampled in the dust God is rejected in his own Ordinance Magistracy is Gods Ordinance the Office and Authority of the Magistrate is of Divine Right under the Law and under the Gospel a stamp of Divine power is put upon it Magistrates are stiled by Gods own Name I have said ye are gods they are furnished with Authority from God and bear his person are in his stead ordained to be a terror to the evil and a praise to them that do well Rom. 13.1 3. The Magistrate is the minister of God to execute wrath upon him that doth evil to this end God hath given Authority to the Magistrate to make penal Laws and to execute the penalties against the offenders according to the offence and to such Laws Christ requires men to be obedient Rom. 13 5. 1 Pet. 2.15 Submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake ye● for conscience sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governors or Rulers sent by him c. For so is the will of God But the Magistrate must not command any thing contrary to Gods Word for then we must rather suffer then obey Nor is the Magistrate to bring clear Texts of Scripture for every particular Command Where no clear Text forbids we are bound to submit in all things tending to Government Civil and Ecclesiastical There is diversity in Magistracy The King as Supreme and Governors sent by him c. a Kings Authority is derivative Emperors or Kings have sole Rule where there is absolute Monarchy there Will is a Law as it was in Caldea Persia c. but Kings and Parliaments govern together where there is mixt Monarchy and a free People as once it was in France and is still in England and Scotland by Gods blessing and in these Kingdoms Parliaments as to Governments have the chief place of Magistracy yet still the King is Supreme as King but Kings Act by their Counsel Now Parliaments are not ordained only to be the Kings great Councel but are the full Representative Body of the People intrusted with all their Rights and is part of the Regal Power for the King is vertually in Parliament though he be personally absent it is the highest Court of Justice a mean between the King and People to judge or ballass between Incroaching Prerogative and Insulting Liberty Parliament onely is Judge consisting of King Lords and Commons not the King nor the People Parliaments being invested in all Rights belonging to the Subject are bound to uphold them they cannot without perjury and Traytors to Posterities give away the Peoples Interest Nor may the People without extreme ingratitude and baseness but maintain Parliaments therein with hazard of Life and Estate Men in City and Country Trade Traffique moyl and toyl as Moles in the earth Why to leave Estates to their Children and will you sell their Freedom by deserting a Parliament and so leave your Children Bond-slaves not able to say this or that is mine but the Kings or his to whom He shall give it Parliaments as I said are intrusted with all the Rights of the Subjects so they have part of the Regal power stampt upon their Authority therefore they must give to Cesar his due and to the People their dues Kings are nursing fathers Protectors of their People Defendors of their Lives Rights and Liberties therefore Kings What Kings are above the People is originally from the People they being instituted and chosen by the People for defence security and commodity The people are also for such protection to yield to Kings willing loyal and chearful obedience and subjection That which makes is greater then that which is made but the People make Kings no King can make a People therefore the safety of the People and a Kingdom is to be preferred before the Honor of a King It is true there is Honor Supremacy and Prerogative belongs as Right to a King to some more and to some less while he is a King but if he be a Tyrant and seek to destroy what he ought to preserve What Honor is due and by whom I expect an Answer In the mean time I dare boldly say That the Parliament of England at this day are willing to give to their King and to His as to any of his Progenitors all His Just Rights and Honor provided His Majesty endeavor the Right of Patronage Defence and Security of the Peoples Rights The Parliament must not give the Peoples Interest to the King Nor may the People sell the Rights of their Posterities for a morsel of meat except they will be as prophane Esau who sold his Birthright for

a meass of pottage cursed to posterities But the great Question is What is Right The Law will decide that Controversie the People ask but what their Forefathers enjoyed and what they bought with the greatest price If Law may take place the Controversie is quickly ended Law is the Rule of Justice and Justice is the end of the Law take away the Authority of the Law and Justice hath no foundation but if Will not Law must be Judge on either party England is in a sad and despicable condition it is a symptome of inevitable ruine to King and People The King and the People have both one Law to be their Rule one God to fear and serve one Judge and one Throne of Judgement where both must appear and there will be no respect of person● It were wisdom to consider what answer must be given Who shall then give account of the wrong done and for the blood of the slain which cryes and cryes loud from the earth to heaven in all parts of His Majesties three Kingdoms And who but His Majesty next under God can stop those sanguine showers and binde up the bleeding veins of his people It can no way be done but by the establishing of our Laws securing Religion priviledges of Parliament and liberties of the People by this means the King his Successors and the people by Gods blessing shall be Cemented together inseparable secured from future breakings out His Majesty being to them as the heart in the Body and the blood in the Veins which uncorrupted is the fountain of Life and Health but corrupted is the cause of all distempers and must be purged else the whole Body will perish The distempers from the Head or Heart are defusive and each Member feels its part Hence comes the general complaint all cry for ease but few or none seek the right means of ease but as sick men desire change weary of every place loath every wholsome thing shift from pillow to pillow from bed to bed from one place to an other still the distemper grows Then the Physitians are blamed railed on and reviled because they were deemed petty gods able to cure all but finding them but men we 'll not be advised by them what they prescribe for cure the people reject and what they tell us cherisheth the disease the people desire this as to a person so to a body Politick not onely prolongeth the cure but increaseth the distempers all this cometh by the mutability in men To speak plain the cause of the distempers in England Scotland and Ireland is either in the King or People or in King and People The Essex men in their commanding Petition implyedly lay the fault in the Kings absence from His two Houses of Parliament ye all know His Majesty withdrew Himself from them yet those Petitioners would vent their spleen against the Parliament because they do not Treat with His Majesty Personally as if a Treaty would change the Kings heart but they forget their former complaints and cryes under Royal burthens arbitrary pressure that lay upon them before this Parliament began because as I told you mutation causeth oblivion the other Countreys Kent Surry Sussex c. in their sedicious way seem to Petition for a Personal Treaty or rather command it to he had and fix Peace as the aym to fool other Counties as themselves were fooled by the Enemy but while Peace is in their mouthes War was in their hearts and hands their Petitions spake Peace but their association with arch Incendiaries and Delinquents proclaimed War this is evident as their folly to be so fool'd to act their own ruine by their own hands For my part I blame not any modest way of Petitioning for it is the Peoples Interest nor do I blame any of these Counties for Petitioning for a Treaty I really believe a Treaty is the best way to settle the Kingdom but I justly blame the uncivil way of Petitioning and abhor the practice of taking Arms against a Parliament It is possible a Treaty may conclude all differences but not very certain yet it would be more advantagious to the Parliament then to the King my Reason is because the People conceive the King will consent to any thing that is right and that He is now another man will confirm Law and secure the Subjects Liberty c. it is the desire of my heart that it may be so for I truly honor the King But if His Majesty upon tryal shall refuse to do what the people say he will do and hath offered or what shall be sufficient to secure their Rights it will then plainly appear to them and to all the world where the fault is and the hearts of the people will and must cleave to the Parliament for safety But before there can be a Treaty there must be some Security else the Parliament and with it all good Subjects may be destroyed together for if they that have been the Original of these bloody Wars drew his Majesty from his Parliament and endeavored an Arbitrary Government and Innovation of Religion and procured this War stand still in power as we see they are able to raise a new War be not brought to Just punishment or some restraint laid on them they will be incouraged to take advantage of a Treaty to do the same again and worse for except security be first given they may change the Scene from a Treaty to a Tragedy but a Treaty is now resolved on as soon as it may be with conveniency and safety no time nor endeavor is omitted the people see it and know it Besides the King having formerly published several Declarations and Proclamations rendring the Parliament and all that have adhered to them to be Traytors and Rebels Those Declarations and Proclamations must first be recall'd else how shall the Parliament be in a fit capacity to Treat but the Petitioners say not a word of this nor so much as once mention their Solemn Covenant which shews what kinde of Spirits they are of and what is their design nor are any to judge of this but onely the Parliament what is safe and what not It is true there have been obstructions to Treaties and to Peace but that was never the Parliament but particular men that seek their own ends to some such we know War is Peace and Peace will be their loss But we know great bodies move slow and great businesses cause long debates and the Parliament have had a Brother Kingdom to joyn in all Treaties and Peace a business once well done is done for ever but done to halfs is worse then undone and will prove unrepairable prejudice to the publique time endeavor and patience will help all Object The Parliament have had time enough sate many years done nothing as to Settlement either in Church or Commonweal but all things grow worse except to some that have sought themselves and gotten estates out of others loss they intend to have no